from the Festival Director - Sidmouth Folk week

Friday 10th August
arms high in the sky! Mixed levels: a chance to focus on improving your flair,
technique and variations for dancing with style. W £8
850 5:00 - Blackmore Torchlight Procession Meeting for representatives of all participating
Workshop
Marquee
team and groups.
851 5:00-6:00pm Market Square Dance Display with Jake Jones and Dan Eccles, Lancashire Wallopers,
Newcastle Kingsmen, Pig Dyke Molly. Collection
852 5:00-6:30pm The Volunteer Storyround An opportunity to tell some stories, or just sit and listen. Hosted by
Garden Moe Keast and Tom Goodale. Collection
853 5:00-6:30pm Kennaway House From Essex To Sussex A light hearted concert of songs from two counties hosted
by Dan Quinn with Potiphar’s Apprentices, Simon & Bobbie Ritchie, Will Duke.
Supported by Sweetcombe Cottages £8
854 5:00-7:00pm Woodlands Hotel Ballad Session Hosted by Sheila Miller and Moira Craig with their guest
Peta Webb. All welcome. Collection
855 6:30-9:30pm Stowford Rise American Dance with Mike Courthold and Fiddler’s Elbow.
Community Centre £10
856 6:45-7:15pm Anchor Garden Dance Display with Jig Crew, Lancashire Wallopers.
Supported by The Anchor Inn Collection
857 6:45-9:45pm St Teresa’s Social Dance An Evening with an English Flavour with Ray Goodswen,
Church Hall Rod and Frances Stradling. £10
858 7:00-9:30pm Methodist Euro Bal with Kerry Fletcher, Frances Watt, Chris Walshaw and
Church Hall Richard Jones. £10
C820 7:00-9:30pm Blackmore Late Night Early – Last Night Family Ceilidh Party with Dyer:Cummings.
Gardens Marquee Caller Alex Cummings. Performance by Dawnswyr Tipyn O Bopeth. £10 (£5) F £15
859 7:00-10:30pm Bulverton Festival Clubhouse with Whapweasel (9.00) plus Tyde (8.15).
Marquee Preceded by a last night music session with Shooting Roots (7.00).
MC. Jon Brenner. Supported by Dukes £16/14 (£8/£7)
860 7:30-9:30pm Manor Pavilion Tinker, Tailor, Beggarman, Thief with Magpie Lane. Tales of ordinary folkploughboys,
poachers, shepherds, sailors and serving maids – at work at play, in
love and in trouble with the law. Introduced by Steve Hunt.
Supported by Nosh Smoothie Kitchen £13 (£11) (£7/£6)
861 7:30-10:00pm Arts Centre Festival Folk Club Farewell hosted by Bob and Gill Berry, with their guests
Mary Humphreys & Anahata. Singers, musicians and storytellers welcome. £8
862 7:30-10:00pm Ham Marquee Final Concert with Donal Lunny, Padraig Rynne & Sylvain Barou,
Len Graham & Jack Lynch. MC. Derek Schofield. £18/£16/£13 (£9/£8/£7)
863 7:30-10:00pm Woodlands Hotel Traditional Farewell hosted by Peta Webb and Ken Hall with Geordie Murison,
Jeff Wesley, Maz O’Connor, Joe Aitken, Peter and Barbara Snape,
Donal Maguire, Sean Corcoran and Steven Johnston, Racker Donnelly,
Jerry O’Reilly. £8
864 7:30-11:00pm Anchor Garden Final Evening Concert with Rosco, Katherine Hurdley & Alex Percy,
Matt Quinn. Collection
865 8:00-10:30pm Bedford Hotel Farewell Concert with Archie Fisher, Crucible Trio and The Claque.
MC. Bill Crawford. Supported by The Bedford Hotel £12 (£6)
866 8:30 - Dukes Live Music from Session One. Collection
867 10:00-11:00pm Esplanade Torchlight Procession from the Connaught Gardens via Peak Hill to the Lifeboat
Station and onto the beach, followed by Firework Display. (Participants please
assemble at Connaught Gardens by 9.45pm at the latest). Collection
868 11:00-1:15am Bulverton Festival Clubhouse – Late Night Extra with Hekety. Caller Nick Walden.
Marquee Performance by KEGS. £13/£11 Bulverton Big Ticket £20
So that’s it for this year – we hope you enjoyed it!
See you again next year 2-9 August 2013 and in 2014, 1-8 August!
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